Filing device



April 24, 1928.

G. H. VAN VALKENBURGH FILING DEVICE Filed Oct. 19, 1925 l LJ ATTORNEYZO':1 Gfmaa/ilhrlhlrmamm 11v /ENTOR Patented Apr. 24, 1928. i 7' NITEDS-Tarts GEORGE HANSON VANVALKENBURGH, or NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. I

FILING DEVICE.

Application filed 0ctober19, 1925. Serial 110.; 63,383.

My present invention relates to improvements in filing devices whichwhile capable of use for various purposes is especially designedtoprovide a counter prescription-file for pharmacists and others... Theinven-- the use of a device having a separable mehiber or file-holderwhich member may be removed bodily from the device and replaced thereinfor transfer of contained filesor pre scriptions therefrom, and thismember is also adapted for use with permanent filing devices intransferring the files to the latter devices. p 1

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangementsof'parts as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed. V

In the accompanying drawings 1- have illustrated one complete example ofthe physical embodiment of my invention, and its uses, in whichthe'parts arecombined and arranged in accordance with the best mode Ihave thus far devised for the practical application of the principles ofmy invention. i v 7 Figure 1 is a top plan view of the do vice of myinvention. 7

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional viewat line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a view in elevation showing a portion of the device inposition for transferring files. 7

Figure 4: is a View illustrating the fileholder detached from its baseand used with a pin of a loose-leaf permanent file showingthe manner oftransferring files from the holder.

Figure 5 is an enlarged detail view partly in section showing therelation of the lower end of the post of the file-holder to the transferpin in Figure 4; r p

In carrying out my invention 1 utilize a base member 1 of suitable sizeand shape, which may be cast from metal and is fashioned with a. lowerflange 2 designed to rest upon the counter, desk, table or othersupport. At the under side of the base plate 1 are provided two bosses 3and 4 preferably cast Lintegral. with the plate and-spaced a suitabledistance apart. The boss i is des gned -to support'thefile-holder whichis.

made up of wire, preferably of steel and properly fashioned torshape bymeansof tools orv machines. The; file holder com prises a rigid straight,post 5 having anacute angle or bend (land a resilient arm 7, the bendbeing designed to act as a separator forprescriptions or other papers onthe file. Thus in order to gain access to a desired prescription filedon th e post 5, the prescriptions above the desired one are lifted andturnediover the bend 6 to the arm 7 in ver-' tical position, while thedesired prescription remains in horizontal positionwhere it may beconsulted with convenience.

The usual points is fashioned at the end of the resilient arm 7 forpenetrating the paper files or prescriptions as they are entered onrthefile holder. 1

The separable-file holder is secured to the.

base by means of its post 5 which is adapted to be'inserted in thesocket9 of the retainmg boss 4 and this boss also has a horizonjtallyextending threaded socket 10 adapted to receive the screw 11 forclamping the file holder through its post in rigid position; The screw11 passes throughan opening 12 in the flange '2 of the base and its head13 is located outside the hollow base for ready access in securing orreleasing the separable holder in the base.

The resilient arm 7 of the file holder is held by the post let and itshook, or bent upper end 15 in well known manner, and

this retaining post which is threaded at'its v detached from itsretaining hook for filing papers in usual manner.

' 111' Figure 5 it will be seen that the lower' end of the post 5 isrecessed as at 18 in the form of a conical bore for the reception, ofthe pointed end 19 of a pin 20. The pm lower end 16 is screwed into thethreaded I 20 may be part of a permanent, loose-leaf file or book, andwhen the file holder 1s separated from its base and applied to this pinas indicated in Figure 4 the files or prescriptions may readily betransferred from the post 5 to the pin as indicated.

In Figure 3 the file holder has been removed from the base, reversed,and its pointed end is clamped by means of the screw 11. In this mannerthe prescriptions on the post 5 may be removed therefrom in regularorder and pasted in a book for preservation.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new anddesireto secure by Letters Patent is- "A filing device of the characterdesc *ibed, consisting of a flanged base, a threaded boss depending fromsaid base near one end thereof, a post having a lower threaded endengaging said threaded boss and having a hook at its upper end, a bossat the other end ol' said-base and depending therefrom and having a.vertical sinooth opening and also having a horizontal threaded openingat right

